Science without the boring bits
Subtitle: get a grip on cyborgs, cloning, global warming, quantum physics, and much more
By: Alok Jha ; cartoons and illustrations by Guy Harvey and Nathan Martin
Publisher: Metro Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781435125544
Subjects: Science; Popular works; Miscellanea
Description: This is the essential survival guide for anyone who has ever been baffled by science. In a series of intriguing, entertaining and often extraordinary scenarios the author brings to life 35 key science ideas in a way anyone can understand.
Notes: Includes index.

Published by arrangement with Quercus Publishing plc.
Table of contents: title: How to clone a sheep; title: How to start a plague; title: How to live forever; title: How to heal the sick; title: How build a brain; title: How to turn sunbeams into oak trees; title: How to become invisible; title: How to put the world in order; title: How to make artificial life; title: How to build a universe; title: How to find ET; title: How to join up the universe; title: How make lightning; title: How to put the universe to work; title: How to split an atom; title: How to know the mind of God; title: How to age slower than your twin; title: How to get life started; title: How to predict the unpredictable; title: How to fight for survival; title: How to boil a planet; title: How to build an earth; title: How to control the weather; title: How to survive in space; title: How to find the missing parts of the universe; title: How to programme your genes; title: How to find other universes; title: How to break codes; title: How to live with uncertainty; title: How to know yourself; title: How to spot a pseudoscientist; title: How to become a cyborg; title: How to read minds; title: How to think like an ant; title: How to save the world.